Current Position: Fredkin Professor of Computer Science.

I am currently the chair of CATCS . Please check it out - we welcome any suggestions. I was the PC chair of SODA, 2024 . The accepted papers are here. An alternative talk schedule format is here. A ...

We introduce a stochastic graph-based method for computing relative importance of textual units for Natural Language Processing. We test the technique on the problem of Text Summarization (TS).

I'm a professor in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon. I am also affiliated with the Robotics Institute. I'm interested in multi-agent planning, reinforcement learning, ...

I have enjoyed reading (and writing), collecting, and pondering the following quotations, which I think are all relevant to teaching and learning programming. If you know any others that you think I ...

Linkage are composed of links and lower pairs. The simplest closed-loop linkage is the four-bar linkage, which has three moving links, one fixed link and four pin joints. A linkage with one link fixed ...

Thread operations include thread creation, termination, synchronization (joins,blocking), scheduling, data management and process interaction. A thread does not maintain a list of created threads, nor ...

Practical implementations of computational theories of speech and language Making computer speech synthesis as natural, flexible, and efficient as human speech.

The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as the whole pack of cards: the Knave ...

Note: "Margery" is a fictionalized character whose story combines Wakefield's own experiences with those of other Scientologists. Testimony is her factual autobiography.

I lead the Transportation, Bots, & Disability Lab, where you can usually find more up to date information. I am faculty in the Robotics Institute, with a courtesy appointment in the Human-Computer ...

The Crawler Workbench is a graphical user interface that lets you configure and control a customizable web crawler. Using the Crawler Workbench, you can: Visualize a collection of web pages as a graph ...